The father backed down and she was saved an early marriage and received an education.

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The company owes its name to an early marriage between Welsh heavy industry and Midlands metal-bashing, brokered by Arthur Keen, a Victorian entrepreneur.

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Girls in school have an opportunity to escape early marriage and early motherhood, and to gain skills that give them enhanced economic and social opportunities.

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Brian Binley (Northampton South) has accused the Prime Minister of being Nick Clegg's chambermaid while Peter Bone (Wellingborough) has said that, as in an unhappy marriage, there should be an early divorce with the Lib Dems.

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Told in a clever mix of forward motion and flashback, the Quayles' story evolves from their first meeting, at a lecture of his where she is an impassioned and out-of-control heckler, through their early marriage, their transfer to Kenya, her pregnancy and the beginnings of her journey of discovery about the evils of Big Pharma.

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For the past three years I have lost at least two friends to early marriages at an age where I didn't even know what marriage was.

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Ringing the alarm on the stagnating progress towards reaching universal primary education, the United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education Mr Gordon Brown, urged that every failing country should draw up an action plan to address obstacles to schooling, from child labour and early marriage to poor sanitation and lack of facilities in rural areas, which the international community should come into support.

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